Communications Personals
Wilkinson Barker hires cybersecurity expert and lawyer Clete Johnson, ex-aide to then-Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and previously at FCC, as partner ... Patent and Trademark Office Press Secretary Paul Fucito promoted to also be acting deputy chief communications officer ... Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld taking sabbatical, starting Friday and ending May 1 ... Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori decided to step down and leave the board, effective in early March; board names director Peter Kern, who worked as a media executive and on mergers and acquisitions, interim CEO.
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With Cisco buying it (see 1701250060), the acquirer said that AppDynamics will continue to be a led by CEO-President David Wadhwani as a new software business unit in Cisco's IoT and Applications business, reporting to Rowan Trollope, Cisco senior vice president-general manager, IoT and Applications Business group ... Neustar adds Barrett Lyon, ex-Defense.Net, as head-research and development, Neustar Security Solutions ... PrecisionHawk hires Michael Chasen, ex-SocialRadar, which Verizon bought in 2016, as CEO; Bob Young is chairman and former CEO ... Texas Instruments moves up Brian Crutcher to chief operating officer ... Sonim Technologies appoints as chief sales and marketing officer Chuck Becher, ex-Kyocera, and Anthony Martwick, ex-Verizon Wireless, joins as senior vice president-strategy/public safety.
Black Box Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer-Treasurer Anthony Massetti resigning due to personal reasons, not related to financial disclosure or accounting matters ... Vectorform adds Martin Tabery, ex-VividWorks, as managing director, European region ... New to Discovery Communications is Arti Umesh, ex-American Cancer Society, as vice president-marketing strategy and partnerships ... Rubicon Project announces Bill Wolfe, ex-Clickatell, as vice president-product management for mobile apps ... Starbucks nominations to board include Rosalind Brewer, Walmart Stores, and Satya Nadella, Microsoft, for election at the annual meeting March 22 ... Lobbyist registrations: Evolv Technologies, Crossroads Strategies, effective Jan. 1 ... Palo Alto Networks, Navigators Global, effective Dec. 19.